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Energy cannot be created or destroyed only transformed
The total energy in an isolated system remains completely constant over time
The first law of thermodynamics states that energy changes form rather than appearing or vanishing. Chemical energy in fuel converts to kinetic and thermal energy inside an engine, but the total energy quantity stays identical. Emmy Noether proved that this conservation law arises from the fundamental symmetry of physical laws over time.
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